Senior Interaction Designer

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Jack Thorne

Senior Interaction Designer

Birmingham

Contract

We are currently looking for a Senior Interaction Designer, to join our client based in London on an initial 6-month contract.

A part of the role is to explore other ways to gather and automate information gathering from 3rd parties (police and medical authorities in particular) which will also lead to service improvements and further reduction in customer journey times.

Skills and experience

Must have Public Sector Experience

The ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

● Preferably you will have a design-related degree and 5+ years of relevant industry experience ● Know how the internet works and what digital transformation means ● Demonstrate an active interest in and be up to speed with current design trends in both the public and private sector ● Extensive experience of prototyping in HTML and solving problems on paper ● Experience of building and maintaining interaction pattern libraries ● Extensive experience with a wide range of design software (eg Sketch, Creative Suite) ● Extensive experience of working quickly in an agile environment ● Be able to explain ideas in a way that other people understand ● Know how to use data and research to influence design thinking ● Understand how form and function work together ● Know how to remove complexity from services ● Be able to write for user interfaces ● Explain design decisions and be able to represent a service at a service assessment ● Assess a service and give constructive feedback ● Put forward the case for design with a product manager ● Collaborate on designs with a developer ● Engage the whole multidisciplinary team with the design process ● Lead a workshop ● Ability to mentor other designers